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Environmental Career Exploration
Description
This lesson provides students the opportunity to explore scientific environmental careers. They will be given their choice of occupational profiles to study where they can gain an understanding of what the job is, education it requires, some examples of where they would work and daily tasks they would have. Students choosing the same profile can pair up (if they want, or choose to work by themselves) to create either a comic strip, painting, video sketch, song or interview on their impression of what a day in the life of their chosen profession would be like. The class can the have a day where they perform their assignment for the class.
This lesson can be used as an extension of Tread Lightly 3.3 - Stepping Forward
Time Required: 1-2 classes
Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will
- Have a better understanding and view of potential environmental careers they could have
Teaching Process
Part A: Career Exploration and research
Part B: Assignment Presentation
Teeachers Notes
Part A – let students explore the career profiles provided at the end of this document or on http://www.eco.ca/occupationalprofiles/
Part B – Once students have picked their career, allow them to form groups no bigger than 4 to complete one task on the attached choice board to perform to the class.
Assessment/Evaluation
See attached documents for information on choice board.
Other Tools
- Printed copies of occupational profiles, or internet access and computers for students to access profiles online from www.eco.ca (a sample of profiles from eco.ca are provided) - Copy of the choice board for the creative assignment
